War in Ukraine: kyiv accuses the Russians of firing during the evacuation of civilians in Azovstal

The Azov regiment, which defends the huge Azovstal steelworks where the last Ukrainian fighters from Mariupol are entrenched, accused Russian forces on Friday May 6 of having targeted one of its cars taking part in the operation to evacuate civilians, killing a soldier.

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Evacuations under the aegis of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which began last weekend, were to continue this Friday in the immense steel complex of Azovstal, the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the strategic port of Mariupol in the south-east of the country.

But according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the Russian army is continuing its offensive "

", despite the unilateral ceasefire it announced on Wednesday evening for three days, from Thursday to Saturday.

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The capture of Azovstal would allow Moscow to claim full control of Mariupol, a strategic port at the southern tip of the Donbass which had nearly 500,000 inhabitants before the war but was devastated by two months of siege and bombing.